The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mohr
Text: 'This pocket size field guide contains techniques that can be used either during the burn or soon after completing the burn. They give some indication whether or not desired fire affects, as addressed by the plan's objectives and constraints, are being accomplished or were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Ryan
Text: 'The organic mantle of the forest floor acts as a barrier to heat transport down into the mineral soil. This study compares the temperatures experienced in a surrogate mineral soil (sand) with and without an organic mantle (peat moss) covering the mineral soil. Different…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrington
The text: 'Gambel oak is frequently found as a highly competitive understory species in southwestern ponderosa pine stands. When the pine is removed, either by harvesting or wildfires, this sprouting oak species flourishes, making pine reestablishments very difficult. Prescribed…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeByle
From the text: 'Aspen is seral on most sites. It colonizes and dominates burns, clearcuts, and other disturbed locations. Maximum aspen biomass is attained between 50 and 100 years after stand establishment. Sometimes later, between 200 and 400 years, the aspen is often replaced…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Fire is used in land management because it helps to solve the problems of the land manager. Fire is presently used extensively to reduce fire hazard, prepare sites for forest regeneration, and improve range and wildlife habitat. Fire has great potential for other uses such as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Seastedt
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schneider, Gudgel-Holmes, Dalle-Molle
The overall goal of this project is to provide park managers with information useful in understanding the land uses of the north additions. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) (Public Law 96-487, December 2, 1980) added additions to the former Mount…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reed
The effects of the risk of fire or other unpredictable catastrophe on the optimal rotation period of a forest stand are investigated. It is demonstrated that when fires occur in a time-independent Poisson process, and cause total destruction, the policy effect of the fire risk…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Euler
Fire is portrayed as both a natural and an inescapable fact of life in North American forests and the adaptability of the forest environment to periodic fire is discussed. The effect of fire on wildlife habitat and patterns, and the role of fire in regulating biotic productivity…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Pheromone baited traps and trap trees attracted an aggregate of 29 scolytid species associated with white spruce in three localities in Alaska. Species diversity was higher in Fairbanks than in the Brooks Range or the Kenai Peninsula. Scolytids were found inhabiting all bark-…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Kessel, Vining
A study of duck habitat use patterns and limnology in eastern interior Alaska revealed that ponds hydrologically connected to a creek system had greater use by ducks and higher levels of most nutrients and ions that those hydrologically isolated from a system. Phosphate level…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larson
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helm, Collins, McKendrick
Vegetation associated with various successional stages was studied on the Susitna River floodplain, southcentral Alaska, during 1981 summer. The objective of the study was to identify the vegetation successional sequence(s) and to approximate a time frame for these stages.…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vanderlinden
From the introduction: 'The transition in philosophy from wildfire control to wildfire management, from total protection of resources from fire to integration of fire as a tool to accomplish land and resource management objectives, has only recently taken place. Fire is…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson
Description not entered.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sopuck, Vernam
Notes (Do Not Cite): Moose distribuation was determined by vegetation and topography. Habitats greater than 300 m elevation were used significantly more than expected. Surveys were conducted in February and March. Moose used riparian areas and Salcha burn (15 yrs old).
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norum, Miller
Methods and procedures are given for collecting and processing living and dead plant materials for the purpose of determining their water content. Wildland fuels in Alaska are emphasized, but the methodology is applicable elsewhere. Guides are given for determining the number…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Weixelman
Hardwood moose browse production was measured in five prescribed burn units and two wildfire sites and was compared with production in adjacent control sites. Production of moose browse averaged 41.1 kg/ha in the control units and 71.8 kg/ha in the nonslashed burn units…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Franzmann, Schwartz, Johnson
Summary: During spring 1982 and 1983, mortality mode expandable radio collars were placed on 37 and 42 moose (Alces alces) calves, respectively. Three calves were abandoned by their cows within 24 hours of capture in 1982; 1 was abandoned in 1983; and 1 transmitter ceased…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McBeath
Spruce bud rust (caused by Chrysomyxa woroninii ) attacked both the leaf (needle) buds and ovulate strobili of Picea glauca and P. mariana. The infected needle buds produced extremely stunted shoots with bright yellow-colored needles. Infected cones became most conspicuos when…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES